Created by Mana Games who have a 14 years experience in creating and polishing tennis simulation games, Tennis Elbow 2011 might be just the best indie game of its kind ever released and definitely one of the most complex: you can play on 9 different grounds: 2 clays, grass, hard, 2 synthetics, 2 hards, 2 indoors, 300 tournaments to play in and no less than 3,000 players in the database, both men and women.
There are two game modes you can choose from: Training and World Tour which allows you to create your own character and go for the number one spot over a career of 15 years, just enough to get you in top form. You have lots of difficulty settings to chose from and infinite possibilities to customize your stats, then the world is yours: you choose your favorite competition and start playing, at the beginning from the qualifying rounds, getting points and experience along the way in order to improve your 17 years-old character and turn it into a match for the top players.
Probably the only problem with the game comes from the auto-hitting feature that sometimes goes berserk and decides to hit a ball that was clearly going outside the court. There’s a fix for that problem: run away from the ball (at least that’s what I did), but it’s still funny and would’ve been better without this little bugger whatsoever…
What I liked most about Tennis Elbow 2011 was the fact that it proved to be a really enjoyable experience even for a tennis noob like myself, managing to deliver a captivating and high quality gameplay. However, I am sure that for the hardcore players the higher difficulty levels and turning off the “adjutants” will also deliver an amazing experience.
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